i really do no know. :blush:

mommyrooch - thanks! I think that your post might have swayed me towards EG. Just have another question....will post about diagramming.

thanks I will check that one out. Ds enjoys doing some ofhis lessons on the computer.

Daisy that is funny!! no, the dog walk is not the only "PE" he gets. He is also in football 3x a week, co-op PE 1 hr every other week, and every day after school he is outside with the neighboorhood boys playing - on average 3 hrs and it is outside play. THough it has rained something horrible the last week and a half so he hasn't been out as much, but with the weather changing, the last 2 days he has been back outside.

:lol: count your childs daily walks with the dogs (30min) as P.E.? Kids in pS have to walk the track or around the school yard, right?

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can you combine the grade levels?

and will add Grammar Land (when does he read this?)

what kind of notebook pages do you make?

friendly bump

okay - so I am thinking (as of this moment :lol:) that I will get: DailyGrams Grammar Tales (boxed set) and Growing with Grammar and I am still trying to find Sentence Family. how do you incorporate all of these "fun" lessons with the daily grammar lessons? obviously, as we cross the parts of speech and so on, but do you do them all eachday or pick and choose?

eg?

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got it debbie! we work, typically from 9-4 plus extras after "school", so as long as we have the 7 hrs a day in then we are good. it isn;t like I am logging 12 hrs of work a day :)

thanks debbie. would you mind sharing with me your multi-faceted (or so it sounds) database. Mine is just for hours for each day of the year.

Dh is in the Army. We are currently in MO but will be here only until April-june and then we move to MD. We have never lived in a state before where we were required to keep documentation. II however have kept loos records and work of DS just in case. My questions are: 1)For the military (and well anyone) moving all of the time, how much record keeping do you hold onto? do you keep it only for that state? a small portfolio of each year? What if I do not keep enough? 2)Am I missing anything in terms of being a military homeschooling family? 3)In Missouri we need to track hours. I have a a database on our computer that I am tracking our time, now down to the nearest 15minutes. enough? 4)My hour log is seperate from the rest of my records. Ds is using the workbox system. in each subject box there is a composition book. On each page of the composition book is an assignment. We date each page as they are completed. The instructions are clear enough for he and I, however should there be a more detailed report somewhere else? 5)is it okay, or not a good idea, for him to write down his start and stop times in the composition books under each assignment so that I can calculate the minutes worked? (he is a very self-directed learner) I guess I am just getting nervous as we approach the years in which records seem to become very valuable in terms on highschool credit and college acceptance. I have a few more years (he is in 5th) but I wan to make sure that I have all of the kinks out and am, at the moment, feeling overwhelmed and as if I am not doing something correctly.

ahh - thank you - then this is what I will be doing...now I need to revamp the way I have been entering hrs. how do you suppose I correct the last 8 weeks?

i AM SO TORN! I am definately going to incorporate the literature grammar works for DS but still do not feel strongly between either ofthe programs. And, FWIW, we are already using WWE3 and DS is not a writer :p

eliie, but I can have all of that information stored elsewhere, correct? I have an hours log that is seperate.

great words of wisdom julie - thank you! I will try having him read below grade level. He like to read BErenstain Bears, so maybe we will start there, or I could have him read the BFIAR books to his sisters. He would like this and it would give him extra practice. oh and for the record - he is 10.

thanks Lisa! I will then log the Usbourne Complete History Encyclopedia that DS has been reading into the Reading slot (just need to figure out how many hours now :lol:)

nope - not in Missouri :001_huh:

yes charlotte mason style, waldorfy projects, those would go over well here.

My DS sounds a lot like yours! He is also an avid reader. Having a resource like the above would help ME to feel like at least there is something getting into his head if I happen to slip on our lessons. I also like the idea of DS being able to work independently as with Growing with Grammar. With 2 little girls to keep busy this is VERY helpful! :D